Housekeeping Assistant

Job Description

Housekeeping Assistant (Day) – Canary Wharf, E14 5NY

Salary: £25,712.38 a year

Full time: 37.5 hours a week

Shift pattern: 12pm to 8pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 2pm Saturday

Support the Housekeeping Manager and the Centre Manager in delivering an exceptionally high standard of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation throughout the Centre clinical and non‑clinical areas, ensuring a safe, welcoming, and premium environment aligned with the expectations of a high‑end healthcare facility.

• Maintain impeccable cleanliness across all assigned centre areas including clinical corridors, treatment spaces, sanitary facilities, and public areas following infection‑control protocols.
• Perform detailed damp‑dusting of high and low surfaces, ensuring equipment, fixtures and touch points meet hygiene standards.
• Clean and disinfect all sanitary areas as per agreed cleaning schedules.
• Support deep‑clean programmes in clinical areas when required.
• Uphold premium hospitality standards expected in a high‑end private clinic, ensuring all public and clinical spaces are presentable, calm and welcoming.
• Respond promptly and professionally to requests from clinical and service teams to ensure smooth centre operations.
• Safely collect, segregate and dispose of general waste and clinical waste following infection‑control and safety procedures.
• Maintain hospital floors to a premium standard using buffing, scrubbing and other specialist machines safely and effectively.
• Clean and care for housekeeping equipment, ensuring machines remain in excellent working order.
• Immediately report defects or hazards to the Housekeeping Manager and/or the Centre Manager.
• Comply with Health & Safety, Data Protection and confidentiality regulations at all times.
• Demonstrate reliability, flexibility, excellent time‑keeping and a proactive approach to assigned tasks while communicating politely, articulately and respectfully with patients, visitors and staff.

• Must possess previous cleaning experience.
• Reliable, assertive, articulate and polite.
• Flexible and a team player.
• Able to communicate in English.
• Good time‑keeping.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues.

• 25 days holiday per year, increasing with length of service, with option to buy or sell Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• Enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Annual performance‑based bonus.
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work.
• Various other benefits and online discounts.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We aim to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role and will provide reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.